#UP Urban Planning Act

Allahabad HC rules that issuing demolition notices under the UP Urban Planning Act during pending land acquisition proceedings under the LARR Act, 2013 amounts to an abuse of process, denying landowners their rightful compensation. The court emphasized that authorities cannot weaponize concurrent proceedings to circumvent statutory compensation obligations, reinforcing principles of natural justice in property disputes.

Allahabad HC reaffirms that writ jurisdiction under Article 226 is barred when an efficacious alternative remedy-such as revision under Section 41(3) of the U.P. Urban Planning Act-exists. The ruling underscores that petitioners must exhaust statutory remedies before approaching constitutional courts, reinforcing the principle of exhaustion of alternative remedies in administrative law disputes.